The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-31


trees and hungering after that fruit which
destroyed them and their posterity; proof
positive for all ages to come that those who
do not attend to their business are sure to
get into mischief do not know that the
prodigal in Scripture would ever have been
reclaimed had he not given up his idle
habits and gone to feeding swine for liv-
ing, go to the ant, thou sluggard, con-
slider her ways and be wise, which, having
no overseer or guide, provideth her food in
the summer and gathereth her meat in the
harvest The devil does not so often at
tack the man who is busy with
the pen, and the book, and the
trowel, and the saw, and the hammer.
He is afraid of those weapons. But woe
to that man whom this roaring Ion meets
with his hands in his pockets. Do not de
mand that your toll always be elegant, and
cleanly and refined. There is a certain
amount of drudgery through which we
must all pass, whatever be our occupation.
You know how men are sentenced, GER
tain number to years of prison, and after
they have suffered and WORKED out the time
then they are allowed to go free And so it
is with all of us God passed on us the SEN
tence: "By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou
eat bread" We must endure our time of
drudgery, and then, after while, we will
be allowed to go into comparative liberty.
We must be willing to endure the sentence.
We all know what drudgery is connected
with the beginning of any trade or
profession, but this does not continue
all our lives, if it be the stu
dents, or the merchants or the
mechanics life | know you have at the
beginning many a hard time, but after
awhile these things will become easy. You
will be your own master. Gods sentence
will be satisfied You will be discharged
from prison. Bless God that you have
brain to think, and hands to work, and feet
to walk with, for in your constant activity,
o young man, is one of your strongest de-
fenses Put your trust i'll God and do your
level best. That child had it right when the
horses ran away with the load of wood and
he sat upon it: When asked if he
was frightened, he said: "No, | prayed to
God and hung on like beaver"
Again, profound respect for the Sabbath
will be to the young man powerful pre-
servative against evil God has thrust into
the toll and fatigue of life recreative day,
when the soul is especially to be fed 1t is
no new-fangled notion of a wild Drained re-
former, but an institution established at the
beginning. God has made natural and
moral laws so harmonious that the body as
well MS the soul demands this institution.
Our bodies are seven-day clocks, that must
be wound up as often as that OF they Will
run down. Failure must come sooner or
later to the man who breaks the Sabbath.
Inspiration has called it the Lords Day,
and he who devotes it to the world Is guilty
of robbery. God will not let the sin go un-
punished, either in this world or the world
| to come This is the statement Of a man
who had broken this divine enactment:
Il was engaged i'll manufacturing on the
| Lehigh river. On the Sabbath | used to
rest, but never regarded God in it. One
| beautiful Sabbath, when the nUise was all
hrshed and the day was all that lovelne9s
could make it, | set down on my piazza and
went to work inventing a new shuttle. !
neither stopped to eat nor drink till the sun
went down; by that time had the inveu-
! ton completed The next morning | ex-
| hibitcd it, boaSted of my days work, and
was applauded The shuttle was tried aud
worked well, but that Sabbath days work
| cost me $30, 900. We branched out and en-
larged, and the curse of Heaven was upon
me from that day onward"
While the divine frown must rest upon
him who tramples upon this statute, Gods
| special favor will be upon that young man
who scrupulously observes it. This day,
properly observed will throw a hallowed
influence over all the week. The song, and
sermon, and sanctuary will hold back from
presumptuous scenes. That young man
who begins the duties of life with either Sc
cret or open disrespect of the holy day, |
venture to prophesy, will meet with no
prominent successes Gods curse will fall
upon his ship, his store, his office, his studio,
his body and his soul The way of the
wicked He turneth upside down. In one of
the old fables it was said that wonderful
child was born in Bagdad, and a magician
could hear his footsteps six thousand miles
away. But can hear i'll the footstep of
that young man, on his way to the house of
worship this morning, step not only OF a
lifetime of usefulness but the coming step
of eternal joys of heavens yet millions of
miles away.
Again, a noble ideal and confident ex-
pectation Of approximating to 1t, will in
tallibIy advance The artist completes in
his mind the great thought that he wishes
to transfer to the canvas or the marble be-
fore he takes up the crayon or the chisel.
The architect plans out the entire structure
before he orders the workmen to begin and
though there may for a long while seem to
be nothing but laundering and rudeness he
has in his mind every COrinthian wreath
and Gothic arch and Byzantine capital The
poet arranges the entire plot before he be-
gins to chime the first canto of tingling
rhythms. And yet, stranger TO us, there
are men who attempt to build their charac-
ter without knowing whether in the end ii
shall be a rude traitors den or a st. Marks
of Venice Men who begin to write the in
tricate poem of their 1ves without knowing
whether it shall be Homer's Odyssey or q
rhymester's botch. Nine hundred and
ninety-nine men out of a thousand are lv-
ing without any great life-plot Boo ed,
and spurred, and plumed, and urging their
swift courser in the hottest haste. | come
oue and ask: "Halloo, man, whittier awayN
His response is: ''Nowhere." Rush into
the busy shop or store of many one, and
taking the plane out of the mans hand and
laying down the yard-stick say: What,
man, is all this about, so much stir and
sweatg' The reply will stumble and break
down between teeth and lips. Every days
duty ought only to be the following up of
the main plan of existence. Let men be
consistent. If they prefer misdeeds to cor
rect courses of action, then let them draw
ont the design of knavery, and cruelty, and
plumber Let every days falsehood and
wrong doing be added ss coloring TO the pic
ture. Let bloody deeds red stripe the
canvas, and the clouds Of a wrathful God
hang down heavily over the canvas,
ready TO break out in clamorous tempest.
Let the waters be chafed, frot-tangle, and
green with immeasurable depths Then
take torch of burning pitch and scorch
into the frame of the picture the right name
for it namely, the Souls Suicide. If one
entering upon sinful directions would only
in his mind, or on paper, draw out in awful
reality this dreadful future, he would recoil
from it, and say: "Am | Dante, that by
my own life | should write another In